She said she was “heartbroken” at the thought of having to put him down so decided to fix it. Romy, a costume designer, said: “My work involves me hand-embroidering and hand-beading costumes in my studio so I felt very comfortable doing this.”

Romy, right, who lives near Houston, Texas, pinned down the monarch butterfly with a coat hanger. She then used a cement adhesive to attach the trimmed wing of a similar one which recently died.